The Information Trust Institute has announced the 2012 recipients of scholarships under its Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP), which supports undergraduate students at Illinois who are U.S. citizens working towards careers in information trust.

ITI faculty have received an NSF grant that will support development of a new undergraduate educational curriculum in digital forensics, in order to address a national shortage of trained cyber-security professionals.

The Assured Cloud Computing (ACC) Center in ITI has developed an overview short course on the topic of cloud computing. In July, the one-week course was presented for the first time at the Griffiss Institute in Rome, New York.

Is competition between athletes, or between engineers? We need to define what we want sport to be given that technologies “are only going to come faster and more furiously in the future,” says Rayvon Fouché, an ITI historian of technology and former cyclist.

As the 2012 Olympics approach, ITI researcher Rayvon Fouché is studying the role of technology in sport, and the extent to which technology is determining the outcome of games-- and even reshaping the very nature of athletics.

ITI's Rakesh Kumar has received the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award. The award, which honors young researchers who "show exceptional promise for doing creative research," will fund the development of algorithmic techniques to make applications robust to numerical errors.

Jay P. Kesan, a professor of law and ITI researcher, spoke with the Illinois News Bureau's business and law editor, Phil Ciciora, about what steps the government should take to improve the cybersecurity infrastructure in the U.S.